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Plot Summary:
A group of friends on a rafting trip down a river stop in at an old ghost town to spend the night. Soon their rafts disappear, and then they begin to be eliminated one by one by a mysterious killer.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 889
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult classic, independent film, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, slasher horror
Best tv shows and movies like Scream (1981):
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The Supernaturals (1986)
Plot Summary:
Nichelle Nichols is an army sergeant who leads her platoon into the woods of the deep south on a training exercise. Unfortunately, it is the site where a bunch of yankee soldiers murdered a town of confederates. The corpses of the dead soldiers rise up to wreak revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 794
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: retro, spooky, slasher, independent film, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, splatter
Similar in 78%
Hellbreeder (2004)
Plot Summary:
Five years ago Alice saw her son murdered; now every day is consumed with the need to find his killer. In the sleepy town of Ludlow, the arrival of the mysterious stranger Alice suspects to be the killer of her son coincides with a renewed spate of horrific child murders. Now a weary drunk detective must uncover the truth behind the killings before another child is killed; and Alice must face the unbelievable truth behind the death of her son before insanity, grief and guilt break her mind.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 587
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, enigmatic, rough, suspense, tense, serious, slasher
Similar in 76%
Sleepstalker (1995)
Plot Summary:
Seventeen years after slaughtering all but one member of a family, a vicious serial killer known only as "The Sandman" awaits execution. But first, his jailers allow a minister to visit the killer to give him last rites, unaware that the minister is a voodoo priest and an ally of the condemned prisoner. The priest places a hex on the Sandman so that when he is executed, his soul migrates into a new body made of sand. To sever his ties with his former life and achieve absolute power, the sandman must find and kill a man named Griffin, the sole survivor of the last family murdered by the killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: slasher, retro, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, detective
Similar in 89%
Terrified (1962)
Plot Summary:
A masked lunatic kills off people in a haunted house.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: cult classic, slasher, suspense, black and white, independent film, scary, atmospheric, rough, serious, realistic
Similar in 77%
Drive In Massacre (1976)
Plot Summary:
Two police detectives try to catch a serial killer who is stalking a rural California drive-in theater, randomly killing people with a sword.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic, slasher, psychotronic, detective, grindhouse, independent film, cult film
Similar in 83%
The Slaughterhouse Massacre (2005)
Plot Summary:
Follow the story of several attractive teenagers as they try to have a fun time in a slaughter house after dark.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic, mindfuck, independent film, slasher, slasher horror, awful
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American Nightmare (2002)
Plot Summary:
A deranged female serial killer stalks seven young people whom phone a radio call-in show to discuss their darkest fears and a night-long game of cat-and-mouse is put into motion by the darkly sinister-looking murderess.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 645
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, realistic, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
Similar in 81%
Offerings (1989)
Plot Summary:
Ten years after he was pushed down a well, a young man kills off the neighborhood bullies who tormented him and leaves their body parts as presents for the one girl who was kind to him.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, christmas horror, slasher horror, cult classic, independent film, scary, psychological, rough, serious, realistic
Similar in 75%
Night Shadow (1989)
Plot Summary:
Alex, an up-and-coming TV journalist, returns to her hometown of Danford as local police attempt to cope with a series of brutal murders. The small town plunges into a state of panic and the murders--clearly the work of a monster, more beast than man--continue... until Alex comes face to face with the evil itself.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, slasher, slasher horror
Similar in 84%
The Undertow (2003)
Plot Summary:
Six friends enter the strange town of Old Mines for a weekend float trip. They quickly realize that the town is not friendly to strangers, and they are pressured to leave by the police. When the friends decide to continue their float trip anyway, terrifying secrets of the town surface. A seven-foot-tall deformed maniac, known by the townsfolk as The Boy is kept under lock and key by the town's mayor. The Boy's purpose is simple: kill outsiders. The Mayor of Old Mines releases The Boy and the maniac's hunt begins. One by one, the campers on their float trip are ripped to gory shreds by the enraged, deformed, hulking Boy. But there is great mystery to the Boy. Who is his father? Who is his mother? How did he become so dangerous? In the end, the answers to these questions will put the entire town of Old Mines in danger. The Boy is an unstoppable killing machine, and anyone in his path won't be in one piece for long!.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, suspenseful, suspense, controversial, independent film, atmospheric, serious, splatter
Similar in 86%
Curse of the Forty-Niner (2002)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends discover gold deep inside an old mine. But by taking the gold and think they've hit it big, they awaken a long dead miner who's Hell Bent on protecting his treasure.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 925
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, slasher, surprise ending, corny
Similar in 80%
Severed (2002)
Plot Summary:
A ritualistic serial killer is beheading victims all over a city, and those surrounding the case are pulled into his world as they try and stop him.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, rough, unusual plot structure, psychotronic, suspense, independent film
Similar in 86%
The Legend of Bloody Jack (2007)
Plot Summary:
The legend of Jack The Ripper comes to real when one of his descendants revive him.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious
Similar in 81%
Insane (2010)
Plot Summary:
A lonely hotel by a lonely road. Sarah is lost, looking for somewhere to sleep. She's come to the wrong place. A lonely hotel by a lonely road. Sarah is lost, Jenny is looking for her. She's come to the right place. The Bridgeburn Hotel.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: Sweden
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic, creepy, independent film, low-budget
Similar in 82%
Axeman at Cutter's Creek (2013)
Plot Summary:
Nine vacationing twenty-somethings are hunted by an axe-wielding local legend.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, realistic, psychotronic, suspense
Similar in 90%
Igor and the Lunatics (1985)
Plot Summary:
After 16 years in prison, Igor and his gang are out and bent on taking revenge on the town that sent them up.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, slasher, brutal, grindhouse, independent film, realistic, campy, cult film
Similar in 85%
Slaughtered (2010)
Plot Summary:
Everyone's getting slaughtered in the pub tonight!.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense, tense, scary, realistic
Similar in 85%
The Horror Show (1989)
Plot Summary:
Detective Lucas McCarthy finally apprehends "Meat Cleaver Max" and watches the electric chair execution from the audience. But killing Max Jenke only elevated him to another level of reality. Now Lucas' family is under attack, his sanity in question, and his house haunted. Aided by a disreputable college professor, can Lucas reclaim his mind, house, and family? Features Lance Henriksen as the Lucas McCarthy and Brion James as Max Jenke. One of the few movies featuring these actors as main characters.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, retro, creepy, cult classic, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, odd
Similar in 82%
Incubus (2006)
Plot Summary:
Stranded after a car accident, a medical school student and her friends try to find shelter - only to cross paths with a deranged killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Romania
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 79%
Somebody Help Me (2007)
Plot Summary:
The screenplay centers on characters Brendan Young and Darryl Jennings who take a trip to the Lake Arrowhead with a group of college friends to celebrate Young's girlfriend's birthday. One-by-one the coeds begin disappearing until a mysterious young visitor arrives and helps them begin to unravel their tangled web of terror.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, bloody, slasher horror
Similar in 82%
Spiker (2007)
Plot Summary:
A nightmare come to life, the Spiker is a massive pink-eyed albino and a maniac killing machine whose physical endurance borders on the fantastic. He escapes from an asylum and returns to the small town he terrorized years before, where he slashed his victims to pieces with railroad spikes and buried the bodies under the train tracks outside of town. When a group of local teens decide to camp out at an abandoned house, they are attacked by the Spiker and discover a web of terrible secrets hidden there.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, independent film
Similar in 89%
Girls School Screamers (1985)
Plot Summary:
Seven college girls spend the weekend at an elegant estate which begins as a fun filled adventure but ends in a nightmare of gut-wrenching terror.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 767
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, splatter, slasher horror
Similar in 86%
Psycho Cop (1989)
Plot Summary:
Officer Joe Vickers would probably make a good policeman if it weren't for his two nasty habits. Firstly, he is a devoted satanist; secondly - he likes to kill people. When he meets a group of teenagers spending their vacation in a wood hut, he decides to investigate.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, rough, bloody, detective, cult classic, independent film, serious
Similar in 80%
Blood Descendants (2007)
Plot Summary:
A hundred years after being brutally murdered by the justice-seeking citizens of a small town, a supernatural killer fulfills his promise to return from the grave and seek vengeance against the descendents of the people who slaughtered him.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, bleak, splatter, independent film
Similar in 81%
Blood Widow (2014)
Plot Summary:
Laurie and Hugh are a successful young couple who have just closed on a weekend home away from the city. Unbeknownst to them, the neighboring property contains the crumbling remains of a boarding school that was shuttered in the wake of an unspeakable massacre. The sole survivor of that massacre still resides in the ruins of the school, hiding from the world and wanting only to be left alone. When Laurie and Hugh's friends explore the property, they have no idea that they disturbed an emotionally-broken killing machine: The Blood Widow.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, scary, rough, realistic
Similar in 80%
Splatter University (1984)
Plot Summary:
A sociology instructor finds her new teaching duties at a private college interrupted by the presence of a killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, enigmatic, rough, suspense, bloody, cult classic, classic horror, independent film, serious
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The Final Terror (1983)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends and their girlfriends head out for what is expected to be a vacation of hiking, camping and a good time, but when a backwoods mama finds them on her turf, it becomes anything but a vacation.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, rough, suspense, psychological thriller, serious, grindhouse, retro, bloody, cult classic
Similar in 78%
Madison County (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of college kids travel to a small, mountain town called Madison County to interview the author of a tell-all book on the accounts of several grisly murders that happened there. But when the kids get to Madison County, the author is no where to be found and the towns people act like they haven't seen him in years. They also say that the killer never existed and the murders never happened. However, when the kids start digging around to get their own answers, they find out that the stories maybe more real than the townspeople are letting on!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, scary, rough, realistic
Similar in 86%
Plasterhead (2006)
Plot Summary:
Every town has a local legend. Not all of them are deadly. Headed to Miami to celebrate winter break, a group of four college students from New Jersey take a detour into the bowels of rural West Virginia. There, the unwitting friends uncover a grotesque legend that stains the fabric of Rolling Glen, a sleepy backwoods town. As the four friends quickly find out, some believe Williams still roams the woods on the outskirts of town, surviving on the slaughter of wildlife. Others claim to have seen Williams in person, a looming figure with a ghostly white visage, purportedly a makeshift cast to mask the scars and wounds left from the merciless assault. They have a name for Williams now: Plasterhead. Soon, the four friends find themselves holed up in an abandoned farmhouse, mired in a macabre web of terror. Sheriff Taggart will do anything to keep the truth buried: the truth that Plasterhead is frighteningly real. As these teens will soon learn, true evil has no face.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense, independent film
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Wreckage (2010)
Plot Summary:
Jared, Kate, Rick, and Jessica find themselves stranded in a wreckage yard after their car breaks down during a drag race. Meanwhile, the sheriff's office receives notice that a convict escaped from a local state prison. As the teenagers mysteriously disappear one by one, the killer grows hungry and the thriller continues to unravel.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic, surprise ending